Assignment Computer Science CSC 134

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA KAMPUS KUALA PILAH

           CSC134

NEGERI SEMBILAN DARUL KHUSUS

COMPARISON BETWEEN PREZLAND AND MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

 

NAME: WAN MUHAMAD QUSYAIRI BIN WAN MAZLAN ID: 2013XXXXXX CLASS: AS1142B1/AS1163A1

LECTURE NAME: PN JAMALIAH TAIB Contents: Introduction of Microsoft Power Point 1 - 2 Introduction of Prezi.com 3 - 4 Differentiation between Microsoft Power Point and Prezi.com 5 Advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Power Point and Prezi.com 6 Conclusion 7 Reference 8 - 9 Introduction of Microsoft Power Point Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc.  In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins.  In August of the same year, Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($29.1 million in present-day terms) and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to develop the software further. PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, the same day that Microsoft released Windows 3.0. PowerPoint introduced many new changes with the release of PowerPoint 97. Prior to PowerPoint 97, presentations were linear, always proceeding from one slide to the next. PowerPoint 97 incorporated the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language, underlying all macro generation in Office 97, which allowed users to invoke pre-defined transitions and effects in a non-linear movie-like style without having to learn programming. 1 PowerPoint 2000 (and the rest of the Office 2000 suite) introduced a clipboard that could hold multiple objects at once. Another change was that the Office Assistant was changed to be less intrusive.  PowerPoint 2002 massively overhauled the animation engine, allowing users to create more advanced and custom animations.  PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector. A better analogy would be the "foils" (or transparencies/plastic sheets) that are shown with an overhead projector, although they are in decline now. Slides may contain text, graphics, sound, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely. The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts. PowerPoint provides three types of movements: ·         Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations. ·         Transitions, on the other hand, are movements between slides. These can be animated in a variety of ways. ·         Custom animation can be used to create small story boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move. PowerPoint provides numerous features that offer flexibility and the ability to create a professional presentation. One of the features provides the ability to create a presentation that includes music which plays throughout the entire presentation or sound effects for particular slides. In addition to the ability to add sound files, the presentation can be designed to run, like a movie, on its own. PowerPoint allows the user to record the slide show with narration and a laser pointer. The user may customize slide shows to show the slides in a different order than originally designed and to have slides appear multiple times. Microsoft also offers the ability to broadcast the presentation to specific users via a link and Windows Live. 2 Introduction of Prezi.com Prezi is a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas.  The product employs a zooming user interface (ZUI), which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media, and allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D or parallax 3D space on the Z-axis. Prezi was officially established in 2009 by co-founders Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Halacsy and Peter Arvai. Prezi (or Prezi.com) was created by the support of Kitchen Budapest and Magyar Telekom in 2008 in order to replace the ordinary slide based presentations. Today the project is assisted by Sunstone Capital. The actual development was done by Zui Labs led by its three Hungarian founders Péter Árvai, Szabolcs Somlai-Fischer and Péter Halácsy. The word prezi is the Hungarian short form of presentation. The Prezi online and offline ZUI editors employ a common tool palette, allowing users to pan and zoom, and to size, rotate, or edit an object. The user places objects on a canvas and navigates between videos, images, texts and other presentation media. Frames allow grouping of presentation media together as a single presentation object. Paths are navigational sequences that connect presentation objects for the purposes of structuring a linear presentation. Prezi Desktop allows Prezi Pro or Edu Pro subscribers to work off-line and create and save their presentations on their own Windows or Mac systems. Prezi Desktop Editor allows users to work on the presentation off- line which come in .pez file format. Users can have files up to 500 MB in size when signing up using a school login e-mail address. This storage capability doesn't affect when users use appropriate third-party conversion software with FLV or SWF format. 3 Prezi Collaborate is an online collaboration feature that allows up to ten people (co-located or geographically separated) to co-edit and show their presentations in real time. Users participate in a prezi simultaneously, and each is visually represented in the presentation window by a small avatar. Although Prez Meetings can be done simultaneously that is not the only option. Participants can be invited to edit the Prezi presentation at a later time if they wish. A link will be sent and the participant has up to ten days to edit the presentation. Prezi Meeting is included in all license types. Prezi is used at Oregon State University, as well as at the Dwight School and elsewhere in primary education and higher education. It can be used by teachers and students to collaborate on presentations with multiple users having access and the ability to edit the same presentation, and to allow students to construct and present their knowledge in different learning styles. The product is also being used in e-learning and edutainment. However note that Prezi is considered by Web2Access to be an 'inaccessible service'. Educators have been advised that Prezi is not ADA/508 compliant and that an accessible PowerPoint version of the presentation should be provided online for students where a Prezi has been used. Some users at the World Economic Forum are currently using Prezi for their presentations. Many TED Conference speakers have used Prezi, including TED curator Chris Anderson, who used a Prezi for his TED Global 2010 presentation: How Web Video Powers Global Innovation. Michael Chasen, President/CEO of Blackboard, Inc., used Prezi to deliver the keynote at their Bb World 2011 annual users' conference. FBLA members have recently started using this software. Prezi is developed in Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR and built on top of Django. It is therefore compatible with most modern computers and web browsers. However, it does not comply with web standards, since it is still necessary to install the Adobe Flash plug-in.  From July 2014 viewing Prezis is also possible without Adobe Flash, using only JavaScript 4 Differentiation between Microsoft Power Point and Prezi.com For those who haven’t used Prezi (or even heard of it), I thought it might be helpful to have a comparison of industry-standard PowerPoint and newcomer Prezi. Please note that this review is based on my personal experience, others may have different experiences and opinions. PowerPoint Prezi Splash factor Small Huge (it’s new, it can’t help but make a cannon-ball sized splash) Design elements Pretty basic; templates provide design elements such as columns for text and boxes for images Pretty cool; frames, arrows, zooming, free-style drawing tools User interface Friendly; familiar to MS product users Somewhat friendly; website provides helpful tutorial and examples Templates Available and modifiable Available in the form of searching the prezi public database and using others’ prezis as templates; also modifiable Progression Linear Non-linear Easy to develop Check! Once you know what you’re doing, it’s smooth sailing Last-minute editing Easy and quick A little cumbersome Video capability No; PowerPoint must be minimized to access videos in another application Yes; videos can be embedded in the presentation “Operating system” Hard drive Online (but can be downloaded) Presenter notes Includes dedicated space for notes and printing options Does not have this capability (but I predict this is coming) Printer friendliness Great Not great (but again, I anticipate this getting better as more users request improvements) Motion sickness Not an issue Can be an issue if you’re not careful with transition frequency and depth effects Cost Usually sold as part of the Microsoft Office Suite, can cost several hundred dollars 5 Free! (see Rad Resource below for license information) Advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Power Point and Prezi.com Advantages of using Prezi.com       Prezi allow you to make 3D slides.       It allows you to zoom your words in and out.       Prezi give you amazing backgrounds like the one that I use on my Prezi. Disadvantages of using Prezi.com       The designing of the presentation itself is rather tricky.       Adding pictures to 3D presentations will ruin the 3D effect.       If you use a blue font on the 3D background it will be hard to read.       Other that, it really hard to read if the 3D background same color with the fonts that you use. Advantages of using Microsoft Power Point       Power Point allows you to add note pages.       Easy to input images and text.       Master slides makes presentation consistent. Disadvantages of using Microsoft Power Point       File size can become quite large on medium to large presentation.       If give power points presentations, the audience may be distracted by all the bells and whistles that Power point has to offer. 6 Conclusion In the conclusion, it up to you what software that you want to use.  For me I really expert on use the Microsoft Power point compare to Prezi.  This is because if you don’t have internet or network you can’t open the Prezi but Microsoft you can open anytime without using the internet access.  Besides, I realized when I use the prezi is it really hard to control that software, maybe because I'm still new in using that software.  If use wants to open Prezi, you have to remember that password and your email that you use to access that web site.  Although than that, you have to remember that some users have criticized Prezi’s “zooming user interface (ZUI),” claiming it can induce nausea.  The company has acknowledged this potential effect and offers tutorials with recommendations for use of layout to avoid excessive visual stimulation. Others have criticized the Prezi’s lack of font and color options. Notably, Presentation Zen author Garr Reynolds once stated that he had never seen a good presentation using Prezi and was looking for one; in a later post, he refers to Chris Anderson’s talk at TED Global 2010 as one of the best TED talks ever, commenting that it was a good use of Prezi. Unfortunately, as Prezi is a Flash-based online zooming tool, most elements of the presentation cannot be read aloud by users with disabilities by means of a screen reader (e.g. it is not possible to add alt tags to images and frame’s used for the page design, and templates, have been built to work within without accessibility options). Prezi is considered by Web2Access to be an 'inaccessible service'. Educators have been advised that Prezi is not ADA/508 compliant and that an accessible PowerPoint version of the presentation should be provided online for students where a Prezi has been used. 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